Israel Charges Officer Who Killed Girl

[Englander]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4630568,00.html

Monday November 22, 2004 2:16 PM

JERUSALEM (AP) - Military prosecutors have issued a five-count indictment against an Israeli officer who comrades say repeatedly shot a wounded 13-year old Palestinian girl to make sure that she was dead, a military spokeswoman said Monday.

The spokeswoman said the officer was charged with two counts of illegally using his weapon, and one count each of obstruction of justice, conduct unbecoming an officer and improper use of authority. The officer, who has been suspended, was not identified.

Israeli soldiers fired at the girl, Iyman Hams, as she approached a military observation post near the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 5. The soldiers said they thought she was planting a bomb. The girl's family said she was on her way to school when she was shot.

Soldiers from the unit later told Israeli media that the officer walked up to the girl after she was hit and riddled her bleeding body with a burst of automatic fire in an outlawed practice known as ``verifying the kill.''

[zbdent]

1. Just realized something

How come you never heard anything about Palestinians leaving booby-trapped "dead" bodies for the Israeli soldiers to be killed with?

You would think that this was more common, before the marine shot the injured Iraqi.

[lindsayg]

3. I don't think it's common

I think that's just an excuse the right-wing uses to justify murder..

I read ONE story about booby traps in Iraq before this incident... and it wasn't even a person that was booby trapped... it was an animal carcas!

[DulceDecorum]

2. This is probably as good a time as any

for someone to explain
Tikkun Olam.

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